HEK (House of Electronic Arts) and the Tezos Foundation have announced the inaugural virtual exhibition under their 2026 partnership, set to premiere June 12, 2026, on virtual.hek.ch. The exhibition will run through mid-August.
Curators Auronda Scalera and Alfredo Cramerotti will lead the project, titled 404_LAND, which uses digital error as its central theme. The group show features artists investigating hidden corners of the internet-broken links, unreachable addresses, and spaces between servers-challenging how digital systems enforce control and erase visibility.
Scalera and Cramerotti, known for curating Art Dubai Digital and advising the Italian Ministry of Culture and British Council, bring deep expertise in digital and institutional art. Their curation emphasizes experimental media that interrogates firewalls, IP networks, and algorithms.
The exhibition will be accessible via a public kiosk at HEK’s Basel location, extending engagement beyond online audiences. Full details, including participating artists, will be revealed in May. Tezos, an energy-efficient blockchain widely adopted by artists and institutions like Serpentine and Musée d’Orsay, supports the exhibition’s NFT component on objkt.com.
HEK has been a leading forum since 2011 for critical dialogue on media technologies, focusing on the artistic, economic, and sociopolitical impacts of the Information Age.